In this first version, the online simulator allows you to pick one of 4 devices (Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia N95 8GB, Apple iPhone and HTC Dream), and see how the MobileJoomla! website looks on that.

MobileJoomla! allows you to turn your Joomla web site into a mobile one, compatible with all the existing mobile phones. For more information, you can take a look at MobileJoomla! Wiki.

This version includes several improvements, including:

Further improvements on installation procedure to support even lower-profile configurations

Incompatibilities with some minor MySQL versions are fixed

Submenus. A long awaited feature; now it is possible to have your submenus with the mobile version of your site.

Various small fixes

Find out more on Mobile Joomla website.

Mobile Joomla allows to turn an existing Joomla website into a mobile website, compatible with all phones in the world!

Its features include:

• Advaced User Agent detection (multiple methods i.e WURFL, Compact WURFL, fixed or none)
• Multi site support
• Advanced image adaptation
• Flexible layout settings
• Sub-domain redirection
• Advanced device categorization: XHTML, iPhone, iMode and WAP
• Custom templates per device category
• Menu exclusion per device category
• Fully customizable with different modules and templates
• Compatibility with 3rd party extensions, modules and components

Mobile Joomla really seems to address all the major hurdles of mobile web development, and I really can’t expect to try it out

Kudos to Ugur and his great team!!

What’s great about this project?

• You can create your screensavers and wallpapers in a snap! No graphic skills? No problem at all! Just drag the elements you want, choose colors, enter texts, define animations, and you’re done!
• Do you think your creations are great? Share them! Not only on Pikkoo gallery, but also on your favorite social websites, with the cool Pikkoo social apps!
• It’s FREE!

Still waiting? Just give it a try, and create your new mobile style!

Kuneri team released SWFPack, an online, free packaging tool for Flash Lite developers!

SWFPack is available as a beta service for Flash Lite developers without a cost. With the first release, Flash Lite content can be deployed to Symbian devices in SIS format, followed by Series 40 devices in NFL and Windows Mobile devices in CAB formats in the following releases. Kuneri aims to make SWFPack a standard tool, providing more enhanced features in the future

I’m a big fan of free “2.0″ tools (did you know about StripeGenerator? ), and this one absolutely rocks, finally bringing a lot of fresh air to the world of mobile dev.

With SWFPack you can easily, and without installing anything on your local machine, package and deploy your FlashLite applications. To see how much it is damn easy, just check out the quick SWFPack tour.

This is an enormous step forward for mobile development: up to now all mobile tools were highly OS-dependent, with the result that non-Windows users could rarely find useful development tools.

Still reading? Go and try it!

Anyway, I came back just in time to find a lot of cool news!

First of all, the database of this blog was not working anymore, and so, if someone of you has tried to post comments, would have most probably failed. Anyway, after a night of passion, it is newly working like a charm!

For those of you who missed it (ahem…) Adobe held an interesting eSeminar about Project Capuchin, and the recording is available here: Project Capuchin Adobe eSeminar.

Meanwhile, Felipe Andrade released an LBS enabled MIDlet that makes use of Jarpa to allow Java ME and Flash Lite to intercommunicate.

On Forum Nokia, the Wiki was revamped with a new homepage layout, and with some cool introductions. One of them is the Featured Articles section, that will highlight an interesting Wiki article each week. And with great pleasure I noticed that 2 articles I’ve written were featured in past weeks:

• How to use Google Maps data in mobile applications
• Displaying GPS position using Google Maps images in Flash Lite

Also, a new contest was launched, this time regarding Widget Development, and full rules are available here: Forum Nokia Widget Contribution competition.

You should know that I’m also a great fan of KuneriLite and its team, and so I can not avoid to feature Pasi Manninen tutorial on how to Take, play and send video file from Flash Lite to server: superb!

Talking about FlashLite and Symbian, Leonardo Risuleo released his Janus Symbian Engine, the custom made extension that will help you improve Flash Lite functionalities, as open source! I definitely think this is great, and that there should be more high-quality open-source projects like this in mobile environment. In this sense, mobile is yet far from web development.

Also, Croozeus is doing a great work with his website dedicated to S60 Python developers, and he recently completed the first 5 applications (with full source code). Also, if you want to fully understand and learn PyS60, you should not miss out his talks!

And, latest fresh news, Alessandro Pace (a.k.a. Biskero) was yesterday declared Forum Nokia Chamption of the Month: congratulations goes to him for this award as for its incredible effort and results in the FlashLite community!

That’s a (really) rapid summary of what I’ve missed on these holidays (but I’ve not missed this one!), and a lot of other things are still around… maybe should I work more?